Russia has announced that it is ending this agreement with Germany - RT(Jul 2025): Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed the Foreign Ministry to inform Berlin that the 1996 pact – which has guided defense collaboration for nearly three decades – is no longer valid, according to a resolution signed on Friday ... In July, the ministry said the agreement lost its relevance due to what it described as Germany’s “openly hostile” policy and increasingly aggressive military ambitions...
